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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Betrayal (Paramount). Rendered ineligible for U. S. talkies by his thick German accent, Emil Jannings left Hollywood last week.* His last U. S. picture, this one about a Swiss burgomeister and his wife, is in some ways his best. The burgomeister has two little sons. He finds out after his wife's death that one of them was fathered by someone else. After thinking about it until his mind accepts as sensible the suggestions put into it by frustrated instincts, he works out a scheme for getting rid of the son who is not his. The camera does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...among other numbers, Brahms' Hungarian Dance and Baynes Destiny Waltz. This will be followed by Officer of the Day and a Football Medley by the Banjo Club with W. S. Warner '32 conducting. A. H. Parker '32 will direct the Vocal Club in singing Bullard's Winter Song and German's Rolling Down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINAL PLANS FOR JUBILEE GIVEN OUT | 5/15/1929 | See Source »

...program is as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Williams Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Shoot False Love Morley Galway Piper An Irish Folk Song In Dulei lubilo An Ancient German Carol Prayer of Thanksgiving Netherlands Folk Song College Songs

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND YARD CONCERT TO BE HELD ON WIDENER STEPS | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

When the first volume of Capital was published (in German) it raised no great storm. It was to do its work later ? in Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Russia, Japan, Latin-America, China. It was not a guidebook for revolutionists. It was the fountainhead of a social current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father of Socialism | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Archibald Robertson Graustein has always been a prodigious person. Son of a German-born Boston milkman, he graduated from grammar school at 11 and entered the Cambridge Latin School for Boys. As a tribute to his small size his new schoolmates promptly stuffed him into an ash can. At a slightly more advanced age he got through Harvard-in two years, with Phi Beta Kappa, the John Harvard Scholarship and, on his diploma, summa cum laude. A little after that he passed from the Harvard Law School to the prominent Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vertical Combination | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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